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[Chaneys Ranch]

And Incase no one has this yet. A flock in Oregon tested positive for the Avian Flu. Nothing to freak out over yet but definitely needs to be watched

To Indiana Small Flock Poultry Producers and Interested Parties:

On Thursday, December 18, a diagnosis of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, H5N8, was diagnosed in a small flock with a mixed population of domestic ducks, geese, chickens and guinea fowl in a free range environment in Southwest Oregon. This strain appears to match those recently found in Korea and Europe.

This diagnosis is important and I am writing to alert you to this incident, but not to alarm you. The purpose of this memo is let you know that as an Indiana, National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) participant, Certified Blood Tester, or Indiana State Poultry Association (ISPA) T-12 testing program participant, we will contact you as changes in the avian influenza situation occur, to allow you to better protect your flock.

To assist you in protecting your poultry:
The USDA is encouraging “small flock producers to keep their birds sheltered/separated from wild birds, especially from wild waterfowl.”
Indiana’s Emergency Poultry Disease Plan states: “Isolate your poultry and poultry facilities from direct or indirect contact with other domestic and wild birds and mammals. Also, control rodents and insects on premises. Poultry raised under the USDA Organic standard must be kept indoors during avian hunting seasons. This includes all months from September through May.”

The ISPA is the Official State Agency for the NPIP and works closely with USDA Veterinary Services (VS), and the Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH or the State Veterinarian). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. Our mission is to help you protect your flock from disease.

Thanks,

Paul
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Paul Wm. Brennan
Executive Vice President
Indiana State Poultry Association
915 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054

Ph: 765-494-8517
Fx: 765-496-1600
inpoultry.org

VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay guys my friend Barb posted this. She is a tester for Indiana and these are the Emails she received about the H5N8 situation in Oregon.
Please take the necessary precautions to prevent this from spreading any farther in the situation that it would come here. Starting now I am not allowing any entry into our barn or coops by anyone outside of our home. I really hope they can get this stopped before it reaches Indiana.

I have received two emails from the ISPA about the Oregon H5N8 situation. I am posting the text from both emails here for anyone interested in reading them.
Email 1
To Indiana Small Flock Poultry Producers and Interested Parties:
On Thursday, December 18, a diagnosis of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, H5N8, was diagnosed in a small flock with a mixed population of domestic ducks, geese, chickens and guinea fowl in a free range environment in Southwest Oregon. This strain appears to match those recently found in Korea and Europe.
This diagnosis is important and I am writing to alert you to this incident, but not to alarm you. The purpose of this memo is let you know that as an Indiana, National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) participant, Certified Blood Tester, or Indiana State Poultry Association (ISPA) T-12 testing program participant, we will contact you as changes in the avian influenza situation occur, to allow you to better protect your flock.
To assist you in protecting your poultry:
•The USDA is encouraging “small flock producers to keep their birds sheltered/separated from wild birds, especially from wild waterfowl.”
•Indiana’s Emergency Poultry Disease Plan states: “Isolate your poultry and poultry facilities from direct or indirect contact with other domestic and wild birds and mammals. Also, control rodents and insects on premises. Poultry raised under the USDA Organic standard must be kept indoors during avian hunting seasons. This includes all months from September through May.”
The ISPA is the Official State Agency for the NPIP and works closely with USDA Veterinary Services (VS), and the Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH or the State Veterinarian). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. Our mission is to help you protect your flock from disease.
Thanks,
Paul
Paul Wm. Brennan
Executive Vice President
Indiana State Poultry Association
915 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054
Ph: 765-494-8517
Fx: 765-496-1600
inpoultry.org
E-Mail 2
To ISPA Board, EPDP Committee, Commercial NPIP Participants Committee Members:
On Thursday, December 18, a diagnosis of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, H5N8, was diagnosed in a small flock with a mixed population of domestic ducks, geese, chickens and guinea fowl in a free range environment in Southwest Oregon.
Attached is The USDA‘s December 19, announcement of the diagnosis. Additionally, the following information was gathered from a USDA teleconference:
1. The site has a mixed population of domestic ducks, geese, chickens and guinea fowl in a free range environment.
2. There is a pond on the property where the domestic birds commingle with wild water fowl.
3. The owner reported mortality in the guinea fowl for several days, and contacted state animal health officials on Monday (12/15/14).
4. Samples were collected and sent to a NAHLN laboratory that identified an H5 virus. NVSL confirmed the virus as H5N8.
5. This virus is essentially identical to the H5N8 diagnosed in Washington State, and it also matches isolates from Korea.
6. The premises has been placed under a hold order, and depopulation took place last weekend.
7. There is no history of movement of domestic birds from the affected site.
8. The premises is located in SW Oregon, and it is approximately 150 miles from any commercial poultry.
9. Surveillance zones are being established and coordinated with USDA, Wildlife Services.
10. Surveillance will focus on the Pacific Flyway, including testing of hunter harvested birds east of the Sierra Mountains. If detections of the virus occur in the eastern part of the surveillance zone, surveillance will be considered in flyways in other parts of the country.
11. Backyard producers are encouraged to keep their birds sheltered/separated from wild birds, especially from wild waterfowl.
12. USDA is expected a varied response regarding trade from the international community based on these diagnoses.
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This week, to help protect all poultry producers, the ISPA has begun an e-mail service updating and guiding small flock producers on changes in the status of H5 or H7 avian influenza in the U.S. and actions they can take to prevent disease. Our contacts are: NPIP Exhibition Participants; Certified NPIP Blood Testers; and participants in ISPA’s T-12 Program – over 250 producers engaged in small flock production. The message to small flock producers will be sent immediately following the delivery of this message.
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Attached is the Indiana Emergency Poultry Disease Plan (EPDP) approved by USDA, Veterinary Services. The latest draft of the EPDP has not yet been approved. The Level 1 recommendations of the Indiana State Poultry Association’s Emergency Poultry Disease Plan follow. The Level I recommendations listed below, under “B” is the language from newest version of the plan. This version is not included in the attached EPDP.
LEVEL I RECOMMENDATIONS
of
THE INDIANA STATE POULTRY ASSOCIATION EMERGENCY POULTRY DISEASE PLAN
Objective: PREVENTION
Situation: A BASIC ONGOING BIOSECURITY PROGRAM WHEN NO KNOWN EPD EXISTS IN INDIANA, IN REGIONS ADJACENT TO INDIANA, OR IN REGIONS OPERATIONALLY CONNECTED TO INDIANA
The Level I recommendations outlined here should already be part of more comprehensive biosecurity and preventive medicine programs which include isolation, sanitation, biosecurity, vaccination, sources of birds, all-in all-out management practices, etc. These Level I recommendations focus specifically on decreasing the probability of introducing an EPD agent, or any infectious agent, into your flock or into the state.
A. Personnel working in and around poultry production units should avoid direct and indirect contact with poultry outside of their company, other avian species (wild and domestic) and swine. If you do have contact with poultry outside of your company, other avian species or swine, you should not enter poultry houses for a minimum of 48 hours, you need to shower and change clothes, footwear and head-wear before reentering your buildings. The following are recommended guidelines:
1. Consider all birds (wild, pets, captive, hobby or domestic) as potential sources of infection.
2. Avoid caring for poultry after contact with waterfowl or other wild birds without showering and a complete change of clothes and footwear (for example, after hunting, after picnicking in a park full of geese or ducks, after visiting a pet store or zoo having birds).
3. Avoid direct and indirect contact with swine. Swine are the most common source of influenza viruses infecting commercial turkeys in the U.S.
4. Avoid direct and indirect contact with birds at county and state fairs, bird shows and exhibits, bird swaps, etc.
B. Isolate your poultry and poultry facilities from direct or indirect contact with other domestic and wild birds and mammals. Also, control rodents and insects on premises. Poultry raised under the USDA Organic standard must be kept indoors during avian hunting seasons. This includes all months from September through May. [Emphasis added.] The following are recommended guidelines:
1. Eliminate free-ranging domestic fowl and pet birds on or near commercial poultry premises.
2. Isolate ponds, wetlands and other wild bird gathering sites from your facilities, and avoid going from these areas into poultry houses without showering and changing clothes and footwear. Wild birds are known carriers of avian influenza (AI) viruses, Newcastle disease viruses, and other poultry disease agents.
3. Discourage waterfowl from congregating on or around ponds near poultry houses.
4. Discourage wild-birds from feeding on poultry farms.
5. Bird-proof houses
6. Control rodents and insect pests
C. Allow no visitors onto poultry premises unless they have a justifiable reason to visit. The following are recommended guidelines:
1. Post signs stating that all unauthorized persons are not to enter the premises or enter buildings. (Signs available through the ISPA office.)
2. Allow only authorized people in close proximity to or in poultry houses and then only following biosecurity clearance (no recent contact with other flocks, etc.) and taking adequate biosecurity measures (dress in clean coveralls, hats, footwear, etc).
3. Growers and producers have the authority to prohibit any unauthorized person from coming onto their property.
4. Birds shed infectious agents in excreta, from nasal and oral secretions, and in cells and excretions from the skin. These agents can then contaminate the air, litter, feathers, water, equipment, clothes, shoes, hats, supplies, hair, etc.
D. Industry Continuing Education Programs. Poultry companies and allied industries should train all their employees on how to prevent disease transmission in poultry, how to prevent spread of disease agents from premises to premises, and how to use biosecurity procedures which are specific for their particular jobs.
E. Flock Supervisors. Companies should review the ISPA EPDP with flock supervisors and ensure they understand the protocols and the justifications for the protocols. Also, companies should supply all flock supervisors with Emergency Poultry Disease Investigation Kits.
Thanks,
Paul
Paul Wm. Brennan
Executive Vice President
Indiana State Poultry Association

THANK YOU BOTH for sharing this! Terribly important info.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Got our first chicks ever today!!



Also gonna set our first set of eggs to hatch. Build my own bator too!!

Awesome!

Forgot to show the coop I have been working on too!!

Cant wait to see it completed!

hey everyone got the boards today for the bases of the next three coops so that is what I shall be working on over the weekend...hope everyone had a great christmas

Exciting, will be watching for pics!

Figured I'd put this out there again.
I'm looking for nice quality bantam cochins. Needing lavender, barred, buff, partridge and possibly blacks if I can't get nice barreds. Perfer started birds or chicks but again could settle for eggs. Smooth feathered or frizzled.

Good luck on the search!

 

[ellymayRans]

Figured I'd put this out there again.
I'm looking for nice quality bantam cochins. Needing lavender, barred, buff, partridge and possibly blacks if I can't get nice barreds. Perfer started birds or chicks but again could settle for eggs. Smooth feathered or frizzled.

I'm pretty far south for you but I do have a frizzled black male. I hatched a pair for my sister the end of Sept. but took them back after a few weeks. They've never been outside yet but the female his sister so I wouldn't recommend having the pair for breeding together unless you could use to pair separate. Otherwise I'll have eggs in the spring.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Also, I'm placing an order through ideal here in a week or so. Should be a decent order with meat birds, layers, and bantams being ordered to most likely being shipped early March. They will be shipped to me in Warren. So pickup here would need to be arranged. Let me know if anyone is interested in going in on it.

too far from me, but I'll add my recommendation. Ideal hatchery is a great hatchery with prices typically lower than others.

 

[bradselig]

I'm pretty far south for you but I do have a frizzled black male. I hatched a pair for my sister the end of Sept. but took them back after a few weeks. They've never been outside yet but the female his sister so I wouldn't recommend having the pair for breeding together unless you could use to pair separate. Otherwise I'll have eggs in the spring.

Thank you for the offer. Ideally black would be the last color Id settle for. I know I will eventually need to outcross my lavenders with black but Im needing the other colors more desperately. I will likely hit you up for eggs though and if (more like when) I head down south this coming year I will get in touch and see if you have anything available.

too far from me, but I'll add my recommendation.  Ideal hatchery is a great hatchery with prices typically lower than others.

I agree. I have ordered from them several times and always had good luck with healthy chicks/ducks. Which is why I decided to order through them again. Ive also used Meyer with great luck as well. Happy with both hatcheries. I just like the assortment Ideal offers over Meyers.

 

[bradselig]

If anyone is interested in a chicken business, here you go!
http://fortwayne.craigslist.org/grd/4820954740.html

 

[ellymayRans]

Thank you for the offer. Ideally black would be the last color Id settle for. I know I will eventually need to outcross my lavenders with black but Im needing the other colors more desperately. I will likely hit you up for eggs though and if (more like when) I head down south this coming year I will get in touch and see if you have anything available.
I agree. I have ordered from them several times and always had good luck with healthy chicks/ducks. Which is why I decided to order through them again. Ive also used Meyer with great luck as well. Happy with both hatcheries. I just like the assortment Ideal offers over Meyers.

Ok. Good luck in your venture!

 

[bradselig]

So my brother moved out, allowing me set my computer back up. So if anyone is needing their info on the members list updated or if youd like to added, please feel free to let me know! Work has slowed down some now that the holidays are over. So should be able to get it updated fairly quick!

 

[Creekbank]

Brad, that chicken business for sale is just north of me. Two weeks ago I got my 5 Bielefelder chicks from her.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

If anyone is interested in a chicken business, here you go!
http://fortwayne.craigslist.org/grd/4820954740.html

WOW

So my brother moved out, allowing me set my computer back up. So if anyone is needing their info on the members list updated or if youd like to added, please feel free to let me know! Work has slowed down some now that the holidays are over. So should be able to get it updated fairly quick!

Awesome news!!! Time for you to get a lil rest and enjoy a slower pace.